Primus stove

[ prahy-muhs ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of portable oil stove used by campers and the like.

Example Sentences

On the shelf itself there stood a Primus stove, a saucepan and a half-full bottle of milk.

From Literature

As Briony came up, a probationer with a Primus stove on a trolley was already preparing the fresh solution.

From Literature

Two of the men began pumping up two Primus stoves, one with a black pot of corn mush upon it, and the other, with a large, black, greasy saucepan containing chunks of liver.

From Literature

We had brought up with us some Primus stoves and spirit lamps.

From Project Gutenberg

Our thirty prisoners, despite the protest of the guards, carried out their couches into the passage, and lit two Primus stoves.

From Project Gutenberg